"Andrew Pickering is a major figure in the field of science studies. In the original, widely cited and widely admired but still controversial "The Mangle of Practice," he developed a number of important concepts that are strongly resonant for many members of the current generation of scholars, researchers, and theorists in the social sciences and humanities. This new, very substantial, highly readable collection will be illuminating for readers interested in science studies, post-humanist approaches to ethical-pragmatic issues, and/or new directions in ontology."--Barbara Herrnstein Smith, author of "Scandalous Knowledge: Science, Truth, and the Human
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Preface / Andrew Pickering vii
New Ontologies / Andrew Pickering 1
Part One: Studies
A Choreography of Fire: A Posthumanist Account of Australians and Eucalypts / Adrian Franklin 17
Crate and Mangle: Questions of Agency in Confinement Livestock Facilities / Dawn Coppin 46
Soul Collectors: A Meditation on Arresting Domestic Violence / Keith Guzik 67
Resisting and Accommodating Thomas Sargent: Putting Rational Expectations Economics through the Mangle of Practice / Esther-Mirjam Sent 92
The Mangle of Practice and the Practice of Chinese Medicine: A Case Study from Nineteenth-Century China / Volker Scheid 110
Marup Church and the Politics of Hybridization: On Choice and Becoming / Casper Bruun Jensen and Randi Markussen 129
Part Two: Reflexivity
Going with the Flow: Living the Mangle through Environmental Management Practice / Lisa Asplen 163
A Manglish Way of Working: Agile Software Development / Brian Marick 185
The Docile Body of the Scientist / Yiannis Koutalos 202
Part Three: Theory
The Mangle of Practice or the Empire of Signs: Toward a Dialogue between Science Studies and Soviet Semiotics / Maxim Waldstein 221
Ontological Dance: A Dialogue between Heidegger and Pickering / Carol J. Steiner 243
References 267
About the Contributors 293
Index 297

Andrew Pickering is a professor in the Department of Sociology and Philosophy at the University of Exeter. He is the author of The Mangle of Practice: Time, Agency, and Science and Constructing Quarks: A Sociological History of Particle Physics and the editor of Science as Practice and Culture.

Keith Guzik is Assistant Professor of Sociology at Bloomfield College in Bloomfield, New Jersey.